ricechickie
Gold Member
Don't expect that model to accomplish much.
You do know that there are single parents whose children do NOT succumb to crime, drugs, and poverty, right? Those single-parent families are going to get defensive, recognizing that no one factor is a guarantee of success or failure.
Two points.
1. Only if someone tells them that a general problem is a personal, likely "racist" insult.
2. So, we don't address a huge social problem because it might hurt some people's feelings? That is not valid to me.
It's not about hurt feelings; it's just ineffective because of the hurt feelings.
I'm telling you how it is, but it's not how you want it to be. That's not my problem.
If we have pro-job policies and put out the truth about how illegitimacy is harmful to children, young women are going to have the option of finding fathers who can also be providers.
That some single moms, and their political allies are unhappy does not stop that, unless we let them.
If you put out that truth, you are only putting out part of the story.
Is it always best to have a two-parent home when one is abusive? Is a two-parent home best when both are miserable with each other?
Education is about more than propagandizing the American dream. Honest conversations need to be had, more than prescribing how people behave. Meaning that, with all other things being equal, a two-parent home works better because it is easier to raise a child with a committed partner. Because there's someone else to pick up the slack. Because you have another pair of ears and eyes and another person's judgment for the tough problems.
So, how would you suggest addressing this issue?
Just the way I presented it. Not as a set of rules, but as a series of life challenges for which problem-solving is needed.
We all do the best we can with what we've got.